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ne plus ultra
[ nee pluhs uhl-truh, ney; Latin ne ploos ool-trah ]
noun
- the highest point; acme.
- the most intense degree of a quality or state.
ne plus ultra
/ ˈneɪ ˈplʊs ˈʊltrɑː /
noun
- the extreme or perfect point or state
Word History and Origins
Origin of ne plus ultra1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ne plus ultra1
Example Sentences
That particular shop, sold to Bendel a decade ago or so before, had been the ne plus ultra of American bookstores.
Many of us occupy a world in which having your own hour on a cable channel is an all-consuming goal and the ne plus ultra.
Having a bride end the show suggested that the wedding gown was the ne plus ultra.
In the pantheon of self-destructive, shambolic, rock-star dandies, Johnny Thunders is the ne plus ultra.
Lamb fills his case, and lights this the ne plus ultra of a soothing weed.
On his return he again doubled cape Good Hope, which had long been regarded as the ne plus ultra of navigation.
This is but a bare outline of a most excellently developed story, in which realism has been carried to a ne plus ultra.
Villars vaingloriously styled his lines "Marlborough's ne plus ultra," a subject on which he was abundantly jocular.
He thinks the bar-mess the most fashionable assemblage in Europe, and the jokes of "grand day" the ne plus ultra of wit.
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